Institutional Research: Past, Present, and Future

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Institutional ResearchPast, Present, and
Future

• Ross A. Griffith, Wake Forest University
  
• Bobby Sharp, Appalachian State University
• Robert Ussery, North Carolina AT State
  University
• NCAIR Annual Conference
• Wilmington , North Carolina
• March 6, 2007

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Whats the same in IR,and likely to remain so

• Who
• What
• How
• When
• Why

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Who we serve

• Higher Education
• Report to 2nd or 3rd level executive
• General Administration
• Accreditation agencies

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What we do

• Data brokers, mongers, hounds
• Information analyzing data to make sense
• Knowledge what happened over time

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Data Information - Knowledge

• Within political realities
• With competencies in issues and context
  intelligence
• With requisite interaction and dialog with
  primary policy and decision makers

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How we do good IR

• With integrity no spin
• Cleverly with ingenuity
• With collaboration
• Taking advantage of new knowledge and technology

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When

• By Friday
• And this will never change

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Why

• To add value

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Why

• To achieve the dream

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Thank you for attending

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